Chapter 372 Childhood Sweethearts

Zheng Ying was shocked when she heard Yang Guofu call Ling Yao "boss" and stared at Ling Yao in disbelief. She wondered if she had heard it wrong.

Ling Yao was also a little surprised to see Yang Guofu, "Old Yang, why are you here?" She hadn't met Yang Guofu for a long time. She only called him once a month to hear about the latest situation and sales of the hot pot restaurant.

"I came to inspect. Boss! I'll take you to the private room." Yang Guofu smiled and led the way. He reserved a private room in each hot pot restaurant so that Ling Yao could eat directly when she went there.

"Are you really the owner of this hot pot restaurant?" Zheng Ying stared at Ling Yao with eyes wide open, looking at her incredulously.

She and Ling Yao were of similar age, but Ling Yao was not only the chairman of Longteng Pharmaceutical, but also had superb medical skills, and she was also the behind-the-scenes boss of this hot pot restaurant that was popular all over the country.

In comparison, Zheng Ying felt that she had wasted her time in the past few years, and the gap between her and Ling Yao was too big.

Ling Yao nodded and looked at Yang Guofu, "Don't bother, there are already guests in the private room. I can just take some seasoning and make it myself."

"Is there anyone?" Yang Guofu's face darkened slightly, and he turned to look at the manager beside him, and asked in an unhappy tone: "Didn't I tell you that the private room should be reserved for the boss?" Ling Yao encountered such a situation the first time she came. How should he explain it?

The manager was so scared that he was sweating all over and stammered: "I... I saw that the line outside was too long, so I opened the private room." How could he have thought that the boss would come today? And he didn't dare to offend those playboys.

"Forget it, just go and get me some seasoning and some ingredients." Ling Yao didn't want to embarrass the manager. And she didn't care whether there was a private room or not.

"I...I'll get it." The manager hurried to the kitchen. He didn't expect that the person who came was the boss. Thinking of how he had rejected the other party again and again, he felt a little uneasy.

"Boss! Go to the office and sit for a while. It happens that the report for this month is here. Take a look." Yang Guofu rarely saw Ling Yao, so naturally he had a lot to say to her.

Ling Yao glanced at Zheng Ying, "No, let's talk about it tomorrow."

"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me, you have to do your things first, I'll just find a place to sit down." Zheng Ying knew that Ling Yao was because of her.

"It's the same if we talk about it tomorrow." Ling Yao saw that the manager had come over with a large bag of ingredients, and stretched out his hand to take the ingredients.

The manager looked at Ling Yao nervously, and said apologetically: "Boss! I'm so sorry for what happened just now! I didn't know it was you, it was all my fault, I shouldn't have opened that private room, you can deduct my salary, punish me, can you please not fire me?"

He looked at Ling Yao with pleading eyes, hoping to get her forgiveness.

Ling Yao shook her head indifferently, "It's just a small matter."

She turned around and said a few words to Yang Guofu, and then took Zheng Ying out of the hot pot restaurant.

In the private room on the second floor, Gu Qi and a few others were eating hot pot.

Gu Qi accidentally caught a glimpse of Ling Yao who had just come out of the hot pot restaurant. His eyes suddenly lit up and he said excitedly: "I saw her."

"Who?" Everyone was puzzled.

Gu Qi did not respond to them, threw away his chopsticks, and hurriedly chased after her. Meeting twice in one day, doesn't it mean that they are destined to be together?

Ling Yao carried the ingredients in one hand and the antique vase in the other, and walked towards the bus stop with Zheng Ying.

"The girl in the blue shirt in front, please wait a moment!" An anxious voice came from behind.

Ling Yao stopped, turned around and looked at the person who came. Seeing that it was a handsome young man, she raised her eyebrows slightly. She didn't remember having seen the other person before.

Gu Qi ran to Ling Yao breathlessly, looking at her absolutely beautiful face, with a shy blush on his cheeks.

He smiled shyly at Ling Yao, rubbing his hands unconsciously with nervousness, "Girl, my name is Gu Qi, can I get to know you?" This was the first time he took the initiative to approach a girl like this.

He was really nervous, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

Seeing Gu Qi's cheeks that were as red as a monkey's bottom, Zheng Ying couldn't help but burst out laughing and teased, "Hey, you are not interested in our Yaoyao, are you?" Gu

Qi's face became even redder, just like a ripe apple.

Zheng Ying laughed so hard that she was out of breath, "I'm sorry, our Yaoyao is already in love, she's married."

"Ah? Oh!" Gu Qi nodded disappointedly, "Sorry to bother you."

After saying that, he turned around and left with a lonely look.

Zheng Ying looked at Gu Qi's receding back and retracted the smile on her lips, "That boy still blushes so easily."

"Do you know him?" Ling Yao looked at Zheng Ying in surprise.

"The Gu family and our Zheng family are old friends. When I was a child, I often played with Gu Qi. Later, after our family moved to Beijing, we never saw each other again. In fact, he and I are childhood sweethearts." Thinking of their childhood, Zheng Ying smiled brightly.

When she saw Gu Qi for the first time, she recognized him, but from the look of the other person, it was obvious that he did not recognize herself.

"Look, do you see a scar on my neck?" Zheng Ying tilted her neck and let Ling Yao look at her neck.

Ling Yao took a look and nodded.

"This is left over from the fight between him and I when we were kids."

Zheng Ying talked about interesting childhood stories as they walked.

On the other side, Gu Qi returned to the hot pot restaurant with his head down and a sad face.

"How is it? Did you catch up with the girl?" Cao Bing looked at Gu Qi.

Gu Qi said nothing, walked to the table and sat down. It was the first time he fell in love, but it ended in vain.

"Hey, can you stop looking like you've lost your parents? Did you catch up with the girl?"

"Yeah, it's really worrying."

Gu Qi picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine, "I did catch up with her, but she's already married." Thinking about it, he still felt a little disappointed.

"Just forget about marriage. There are many beautiful women in the world. Why should you love only one?"

"That's right. With your conditions, you can have any kind of woman you want."

"I heard that the little girl from the Zheng family is back. Have you seen her?"

Gu Qi was a little surprised when he heard this. "You said Zheng Ying is back?"

"Yes, isn't Mr. Zheng in the hospital these days? I heard that he is dying, how could Zheng Ying not come back? Aren't your family and the Zheng family old friends? Didn't your parents tell you?"

Gu Qi thought of this morning, his mother seemed to have mentioned it to him, but he was in a hurry to go out, so he didn't listen carefully. Thinking

of the little girl with two braids who followed him crying all day, Gu Qi couldn't help but smile. He and her haven't seen each other for nearly ten years, and he wondered what the little girl looks like now.